Sunday, April 6, 2008

Fix: Importing photos on Ubuntu Hardy

A few weeks ago importing from my Canon EOS 350D to my Ubuntu machines was working, but at some point an update has broken it. I spent a bit of time this morning finding out why. (For those of you who have never tried using an Apple Mac, this stuff never happens on a Mac - things just work.) Anyway...

There are two separate stuff-ups at the moment. The first is that the pop-up that asks you whether you'd like to import your photos doesn't come up when you plug-in your camera. Don't know why this default was changed, but you can switch it back on as described in this forum post.

Ok, so now if you plug in your camera, F-Spot will pop up and say:

Received error "Could not claim the USB device" while connecting to camera

The answer is based on a forum post and a blog entry I found on the web. However, they're not 100% accurate, because the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/45-libgphoto2.rules" no longer exists. So I added the file back with the one line: